Oh my bad so it's a private server then, point still somewhat stands as that's just the nature of sharing things on the internet
But yeah sounds like the second scenario would be the reason for this thread shenanigans plus the broken trust, because the first one about CN authorities catching up to them from the leaked unfinished mod doesn't make sense to me as if releasing the completed mod would've made a difference if that were the case. Or I'm just missing something here who knows
This would be my last response to the matter as I was just a little curious, so cheers!
beside unfinish it is just sharing to people to get feed back, we have alot of people who make games and mod on this platform which I do believe have at some point ask if people can test their game but don't release it until the dev believe is ready to be release yet. but the person who leak it just ignore that and basically just want to end the dev work with trying to seek attention.
I have played couple of games that was being developed on this platform also asking for feedback with sometime they asking other people who play their game for possible "beta" test their new version is release on this platform.
Their was strawman argument made how well this is a pirate site with no rule against this and no one care, but the problem is basic as more exposure = end Mod development pretty simple, anyone else who enjoy the mod will not see any further update now.
Some people on thread are doing the mental gymnasticis is saying why bother making any porn game or anything when you can risk going to jail, and good thing this was leak since their was going to be no more update. which just prove they can't read or have basic comprehension.
All country has law against porn in general with its creation/depiction and also how the country enforce this law, and it just happen that china is really strict about it, which again with my given example of chinese porn artist being arrested. Some american porn artist also gotten in trouble before with Shadman infamous, and many possible other.
Given how this is a porn game site, I am pretty sure everyone want to play these games and respect the dev for making them to a degree and if possible would like the game to be updated as long as they didn't break the dev rule since they are making the game and people want it to be release. But someone broke that rule that ruins the future update for all of us and someone also agree that leaking this for attention with basically intent to destroy the mod/game rather then see it being finish for public release.
I just want to play more of the mod but knowing update and development will end by One person breaking a basic rule just ruin the fun for everyone.
From deleted comments it seem the mod author from china gave permission to the discord group to share the file among each other in some drip feed method as long as it is exposure to a high degree, like posting it on a public website. you can share it with other people to people but not post it on site just yet. Being share is for feedback purpose aka find bugs or recommendation to what the mod author can add to their game. Leaking the game against the dev rule/before public release is trying to end the game development.
As I stated with how little I can find about the VIP mod author in sense since alot of the references point is deleted, I do believe when it is ready for public release, he would make a account and download cloud that can't be trace back to the creator. This seen to be the case with most Chinese development for mod and games for any public release. any upload to china site for public download is made this way, possible with a VPN account to make it look like foreign upload location ect. out of the box thinking to evade the CCP EYES but might take like alot of more work given their country situation to sometime bypass VPN stuff and go straight for their IP adress. This seems to be china new thing, their is alot of reason for it which will become off topic so just look it up on youtube or something.